10 Things You Didn't Know About 'The Dark Knight Rises'

1 of 10The Story Came First And The Action Later

﻿When Nolan and David developed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight they plotted action beats they needed and where they would be in the movie. In The Dark Knight Rises they wrote the story and characters and let the action develop naturally. "We absolutely resisted the idea of making The Dark Knight Rises bigger just because it was a third movie," said Goyer. "We didn't go into it saying that we were going to make an epic war movie, and then develop the story from that idea. It was decidedly the opposite of that. In fact, again, the first thing we came up with was the ending, which was very personal, and we wrote a beginning that also had Bruce Wayne in a very personal place. That's what we had when we started. It wasn't until a month or two into the writing process that things got very big and destructive in the middle."﻿

2 of 10Catwoman

Christopher Nolan and co-writer David Goyer were a nervous about including Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. “We kept imagining Eartha Kitt in the role,” David Goyer said in the book Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy, “which was not of the Christopher Nolan Batman universe at all.”It was Christopher Nolan’s brother, co-writer Jonathan Nolan, who felt strongly that “if we were trying to create a complete arc for Batman, we couldn’t do it without Catwoman, and without that relationship between Catwoman and Batman.”

A little Side note: Anne Hathaway found her inspiration not only in comic book material, but also in the beautiful Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian born actress who became a star in the 1930s.